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The Age of the Automobile: A Social History of 20th Century Britain
ISBN: 9781911204190 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lively work offers a wide-ranging account of the social history of the motorised age, and of the machine which has reshaped the character and development of the modern world. It places the development of the car (and of its more sinister cousins the tank and the war plane) in their context and impact on society in peace and war from the Edwardian period onwards. This is a social history of modern Britain at its most focused, on issues that really matter.
This lively work offers a wide-ranging account of the social history of the motorised age, and of the machine which has reshaped the character and dev...
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110,46 |
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Trade, Migration and Urban Networks in Port Cities, c. 1640-1940
ISBN: 9780973893489 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,53 |
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Air Transport and the European Union: Europeanization and Its Limits
ISBN: 9781349393961 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Air Transport and the European Union examines the emergence of the EU as a major actor in aviation. It investigates how the EU was able to develop a common policy despite the existence of an established sectoral regime and against the opposition of most European states and their 'flag carriers'.
Air Transport and the European Union examines the emergence of the EU as a major actor in aviation. It investigates how the EU was able to develop a c...
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401,58 |
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Maritime Security in East and Southeast Asia: Political Challenges in Asian Waters
ISBN: 9789811025877 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume investigates the nature of threats facing, or perceived as facing, some of the key players involved in Asian maritime politics. The articles in this collection present case studies on Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia as a whole and focus on domestic definitions of threats and conceptualisations of security. These studies map the differing understandings of danger in this region and explore how contending narratives of -threats- and -security- affect the national maritime security policy deliberations within the countries of this... This volume investigates the nature of threats facing, or perceived as facing, some of the key players involved in Asian maritime politics. The art... |
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602,40 |
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
ISBN: 9780143128977 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant. As New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was...
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces...
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80,04 |
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Transportation Rates and Economic Development in Northern Ontario
ISBN: 9780802033437 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,10 |
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A Mobile Century?: Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781138259003 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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253,08 |
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Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students
ISBN: 9780081009147 / Angielski / Miękka / 910 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Sixth Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fundamental subjects, including elasticity, structural analysis, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Now in its sixth edition, the author has expanded the book's coverage of analysis and design of composite materials for use in aircraft, and has added new, real-world and design-based examples, along with new end-of-chapter problems of varying complexity.
Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Sixth Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text. It covers all fu... |
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446,33 |
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The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period
ISBN: 9789004341173 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China s maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chinese traders flexibly adopted to the foreign-dominated...
Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells ...
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580,80 |
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The Story of Canadian Roads
ISBN: 9781442631403 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,51 |
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Foss Maritime Company
ISBN: 9781531630249 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone viewing the ports of Tacoma or Seattle will be familiar with the green-and-white Foss tugboats directing huge ships into docks, scurrying alongside barges filled with products from around the world,
and patiently pulling rafts filled with logs to mills or to ships headed overseas. Since 1889, the Foss family has taken their business from rowboats to powered launches, eventually developing some of the most powerful tugboats in the world. Foss Launch and Tug is a true American success story of struggling Norwegian immigrants who came to the Pacific Northwest and parlayed a single... Anyone viewing the ports of Tacoma or Seattle will be familiar with the green-and-white Foss tugboats directing huge ships into docks, scurrying along...
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121,93 |
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Transportation Protection and Homeland Security
ISBN: 9781598889222 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source. The book was fashioned in response to the critical needs of transportation production managers, transportation engineers, security professionals (physical and cyber-security), students, and for anyone with a general interest in the security of transportation infrastructure systems. In Transportation Protection and Homeland Security, the reader will gain an understanding of the challenge of domestic...
The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homel...
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467,31 |
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Review of Maritime Transport 2016
ISBN: 9789211129045 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present edition of the Review of Maritime Transport takes the view that the long-term growth prospects for seaborne trade and maritime businesses are positive, with ample opportunities for developing countries to generate income and employment and help promote foreign trade.
The present edition of the Review of Maritime Transport takes the view that the long-term growth prospects for seaborne trade and maritime businesses ...
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384,55 |
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Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond
ISBN: 9780857195999 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engines That Move Markets is a comprehensive history of market-shaping industries and their impact on how we invest today.
Engines That Move Markets is a comprehensive history of market-shaping industries and their impact on how we invest today.
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250,97 |
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World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks
ISBN: 9789004358553 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade...
In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially si...
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640,14 |
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A Journey Into Strategy: Lessons in Leadership and Life
ISBN: 9780692850633 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,86 |
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Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity: Design and Assessment of Interventions to Enhance Rider Safety
ISBN: 9781138747647 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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306,62 |
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Shift Happens: breakdowns during life's long hauls
ISBN: 9780999632505 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,61 |
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Burlington West
ISBN: 9780674334687 / Angielski / Twarda / 601 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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281,57 |
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Management of Shipping Companies
ISBN: 9781138190092 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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924,88 |